MEXICO CITY: The world's big cities will need $375 billion of investment to curb climate change, a large gathering of mayors was heard in Mexico on Thursday. "It is a lot, but there is no other opt ...More

KOLKATA: Fighting ingress of salt water and erosion of forest land due to climate change, tiger population in the shrinking islands of Sundarbans has remained stable over the last few years with the l ...More

KOLKATA: Fighting ingress of salt water and erosion of forest land due to climate change, tiger population in the shrinking islands of Sundarbans has remained stable over the last few years with the l ...More

BENGALURU: A 100-bedded hospital is estimated to generate 40 kg of hospital waste per day. Twenty eight hospitals in Karnataka, two of which are private and the rest are government, have been chosen f ...More

There is no conclusive study available that burning of paddy straw crop residue in the States like Punjab and Haryana would always impact quality of air in the States/UT like Rajasthan, Delhi etc. As ...More

Fighting ingress of salt water and erosion of forest land due to climate change, tiger population in the shrinking islands of Sundarbans has remained stable over the last few years with the latest rep ...More

With Atlas Mountain on one side and the vast Sahara on the other, Ouarzazate also known as Morocco's Hollywood, where films like "Gladiator" and TV series "Game of Thrones" were shot has become, in a ...More

While on the face of it, countries did celebrate the outcome of the latest round of climate negotiations in Marrakesh, the uncertainty brought out by the US presidential elections is likely to be on t ...More

Compared to the several breakthrough developments around climate change in the last one year, including the landmark Paris Agreement, outcomes of the Marrakesh climate conference that ended earlier th ...More

Twenty-eight healthcare facilities in the state have been chosen for the implementation of “Environmentally Sound Management of Medical Wastes in India” programme which aims at streamlining the manag ...More

Arctic scientists have warned that the rapid melting of ice cap stands at a risk of triggering 19 ‘tipping points’ in the region. According to the Arctic Resilience Report, this arctic warming could c ...More

Penguin India on Monday announced that it has acquired Sunita Narains "Conflicts of Interest: My Journey through Indias Green Movement", a personal account of one of Indias foremost environmentalist e ...More

Six years after they were put on “critically polluted area” list, the Modi government Saturday announced the decision to lift the moratorium on expansion and new investments in Gujarat’s industrial cl ...More

Lt Governor Najeeb Jung on Friday was informed that PM 2.5 levels have come down by one-fourth and PM 10 levels by one-third from November 15-24. The LG chaired a meeting to review the condition of ...More

At first glance, the outcomes of the recently concluded UN-sponsored climate negotiations at Marrakech seem to be low-key, lacking the glamour of achievements a year ago in Paris. The most important o ...More

Unless the world stops burning fossil fuels that are fuelling global warming, irreversible changes in the Arctic could have disastrous effects for the people that live there and for the rest of the pl ...More

The Arctic archipelago of Svalbard has seen such extreme warmth this year that the average annual temperature could end up above freezing for the first time on record, scientists said. KetilIsaksen o ...More

As world leaders gathered in Marrakech (November 7-18) to discuss the implementation of the Paris Agreement at the 22nd session of the Conference of the Parties (COP-22), the election of a leader in t ...More

KEIBUL LAMJAO, NOVEMBER 24: In a move to develop a conservation strategy for Eld’s deer, popularly called the Sangai in local dialect here, a first ever three-day International workshop on the deer’s ...More

As the UN climate conference got underway on 7 November, fate and the US electorate delivered a body blow to the ambitions of many gathered in Marrakech to respond to what is inarguably one of the mos ...More